Beyond Grief: Sculpture and Wonder in the Gilded Age Cemetery

by Cynthia Mills

Book Overview

Beyond Grief explores high-style funerary sculptures and their functions during the turn of the twentieth century. Many scholars have overlooked these monuments, viewing them as mere oddities, a part of an individual artist's oeuvre, a detail of a patron's biography, or local civic cemetery history. This volume considers them in terms of their wider context and shifting use as objects of consolation, power, and multisensory mystery and wonder. Art...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1935623796
• ISBN13: 9781935623793
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.9" x 9.8"